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Letter "L" » limbs
«A horrid alcoholic explosion scatters all my good intentions like bits of limbs and clothes over the doorsteps and into the saloon bars of the tawdriest pubs»
Author: Dylan Thomas
(Playwright, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Alcohol
| Keywords:
alcoholic, alcoholics, bits, doorsteps, explosion, Explosions, horrid, intentions, limbs, pub, pubs, saloon, saloons, scatters, tawdriest, tawdry, The Explosion
«Even as a tortoise draws in its limbs, the wise can draw in their senses at will.»
«Befriend him, death, and pity him, may he from here arise! Unharmed, with sound limbs, hearing perfectly, through old age carrying a hundred years, let him get enjoyment by himself (unaided)!»
«ART, n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related as follows by the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape, S.J.One day a wag --what would the wretch be at? -- Shifted a letter of the cipher RAT, And said it was a god's name! Straight arose Fantastic priests and postulants (with shows, And mysteries, and mummeries, and hymns, And disputations dire that lamed their limbs) To serve his temple and maintain the fires, Expound the law, manipulate the wires. Amazed, the populace that rites attend, Believe whate'er they cannot comprehend, And, inly edified to learn that two Half-hairs joined so and so (as Art can do) Have sweeter values and a grace more fit Than Nature's hairs that never have been split, Bring cates and wines for sacrificial feasts, And sell their garments to support the priests.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
amazed, as follows, cipher, day shift, disputation, disputations, edified, expound, fires, hairs, hymn, hymns, jape, joined, lamed, Letter of, limbs, mummery, populace, rites, sacrificial, shifted, so-and-so, split, sweeter, wag, wines, wires
«Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.»
Author: Pablo Picasso
(Artist, Painter)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
application, beyond measure, canon, canons, conceive, instinct, limbs, measuring, The Brain
«As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous activity and concentrate your force on one or a few points»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
concentrate, gardener, gardeners, limbs, miscellaneous, prune, pruned, prunes, pruning, severe, vigorous
«As any action or posture long continued will distort and disfigure the limbs; so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
contracted, crippled, disfigure, disfigured, limbs
«Asleep in the darkness of the night, how shall she pass her life-night without her Husband? Her limbs shall burn, her body shall burn, and her mind and wealth shall burn as well.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
| Keywords:
limbs
«A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigor of a man, who would take a drawn sword for his rattle, and set the house in a blaze that he might chuckle over the splendor.»
«Abstinence sows sand all overThe ruddy limbs & flaming hair,But Desire GratifiedPlants fruits of life & beauty there.»
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